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The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
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Original name: Le retour des aventuriers du timbre perdu
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue Charles Merriweather, a stamp traveller frozen in time since his last attempt at stamp- travelling, 65 years ago. But Charles turns out to be a girl, his sister Molly! And she is rapidly turning into an old woman. To find a cure, Tommy takes off in a race against the time that leads him and Molly to the exotic and magical South Pacific islands.
Style:
semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, adventure, family, youth, friends, rescue, family relations, escapades, disorder, siblings relations, race against time, young heroes, time travel, brother sister relationship, friend, shrinking, danger, imaginary, seal, miniaturization
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and exciting films with plots about family, adventure, young heroes, youth, danger, friends and family relations mostly in Family, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Return of Tommy Tricker: Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998), The Flying Liftboy (1998), Joey (1997), Napoleon (1995), Bigfoot (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
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friends, family relations, disorder, young heroes, mischievous children, misfit, getting home, heroes, family, pirate, youth, rescue ...
Place:
australia, china
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95%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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63%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good
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pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
rescue, jungle, child in peril, animal life, friends, kids in trouble, disorder, feral man, dangerous animal, youth, young heroes, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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semi serious, exciting, sentimental, suspenseful, feel good ...
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kids, family outing
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elevator, world spanning, adventure, misfit, young heroes, escapades, heroes, youth, family, state affairs, social relations, kids in trouble ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, europe, new york, usa, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
family relations, kangaroo, child in peril, friends, animal life, disorder, rescue, babies and infants, youth, young heroes, mischievous children, adventure ...
Place:
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61%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
pets, golden retriever, family relations, dog, balloon, misfit, rescue, youth, best friends, partners, heroes, getting home ...
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australia, sydney australia
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61%
361
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The whole family will enjoy huge laughs and giant, hairy adventures with this touching tale about a big-hearted Bigfoot. Lost in the forest, he befriends three kids, Percy, Madison and Leonard, who are determined to protect him. When two local ...
Style:
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Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
forest, friendship, rescue, adventure, friends, school, captivity, youth, sasquatch, rivalry, fish out of water, save the day ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild. Three years go by, and Emily is lost deep in the forest. Cold, frightened and alone in the darkness, she falls and ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, feel good, sincere
Plot:
young heroes, adventure, friendship, missing child, escapades, getting home, family life, forest, deforestation, environmental issue, poacher, animal life ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.
Style:
exciting, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens
Plot:
rescue, twins, friendship, adventure, family relations, friends, youth, family, escapades, competition, brother brother relationship, mayor ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This is the film version which is a compilation of the 1969 TV Series shown in 13 parts. It is therefore technically the "first" Pippi Långstrump film, although it wasn't released as a film until 1973. Pippi lives alone in ...
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Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ship, friendship, heist, family life, disorder, friends, family relations, family, mischievous children, heroes, escapades, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kassie and her friends stumble across an old, broken pocket watch they begin an unexpected journey to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold. They'll have to solve riddles and follow clues to find the lost treasure. With the help ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.
Style:
surreal, exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friends, family, youth, escapades, chase, young heroes, heroes, adventure, save the day, heroic mission, friendship, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min.
Story:
Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to ...
Style:
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Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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57%
363
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Austria, Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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exciting, semi serious, humorous
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kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 91 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This family comedy is about, Zack, an 8-year old American boy who is separated from his 18-year old sister, as they arrive in Paris for a family vacation. Seth, and friends track Zack down.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
teleportation, shrinking, family relations, revolution, young heroes, heroes, family, rebellion, youth, rescue, good versus evil, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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54%
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Duration: 56 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Danny Quinn (Seth Bernard) lives with one great dream... he wants to prove his late father was right about a pirate treasure in the depths of Lake Michigan.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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